Word: outspoken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stephen J. Chapman '76, a Crimson editor and outspoken conservative in the early '70s, remembers being "one of four or five people maybe who considered themselves moderate or conservative out of fifty or sixty...
...boasts the Harvard name on its masthead, but otherwise The Harvard Crimson strongly asserts its independence from its namesake--through outspoken student reporters, financial independence, its own building and even its own printing presses...
...press release, Kennedy, a leading Democrat, said of Simpson, an outspoken Republican: "He's an outstanding choice. He served the people of Wyoming and the nation well for 18 brilliant years in the Senate and he'll do an excellent job and the Institute of Politics...
...hungry roommate if you knew him from a student organization, or your loud-mouthed roommate if you overheard her in a dining hall, or your grade-grubbing roommate if you met him in a class. But when we live with these people, "power-hungry" becomes "dedicated," "loud-mouthed" becomes "outspoken," "grade-grubbing" becomes "conscientious"--not because we're blind to these people's habits, but because we understand the motivations behind them. The better we know people, the more opportunity we have to see through their annoying tics into the person below who makes them great...
...ultimately the more profitable one--is sticking to all the causes you believe in, and fighting to reconcile them. Of course, this may not be politically popular. David Brock, an openly gay writer for the hard-line conservative American Spectator and one of the President Clinton's most outspoken critics, has faced suspicion from the right and been caricatured viciously by the left--all on account of his sexuality...